radioactive beam

radioactive beam

[‚rād·ē·ō‚ak·tiv ′bēm]

(nucleonics)

A collimated stream of accelerated radioactive nuclei, of sufficient intensity to be utilized for a variety of scientific enterprises such as studies of nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, and materials science.

However, the radium treatment of cancer was not put on to a scientific basis until the 1920's, when radium needles and radon seeds, (radium emanation sealed into glass tubes), were used as implants--accurate methods of dosage now having been developed together with the treatment of deeper cancers by radioactive beam therapy from 'radium bombs'.

The result is a focused proposal that will lead to a flexible tool for extracting precise structure data from radioactive beam experiments, answering questions at the frontiers of nuclear stability, models and nuclear astrophysics.

An unprecedented infrastructure providing cooled precision beams of stable isotopes, antiprotons and radioactive beam for Nuclear-, Atomic-, Astrophysics and high density plasma physics is under construction, opening new fields in research.

The 23 papers from the proceedings discuss supernovae and neutron stars, nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics with radioactive beams, the quark-gluon plasma and beyond, low-energy reactions for astrophysics, nuclear structure for astrophysics, and a number of areas explored by selected poster papers.

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